The APSA Membership Dashboard provides insights into various cross-sections of APSA members. It uses geographic visualizations to show the various locations of APSA members, and allows users to view the demographic profiles of APSA membership by member field of study, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and country. This update also includes members who list ‘no response’ as their race/ethnicity as well as those who ‘prefer not to disclose’ their gender. Future updates will include these race/ethnicity and gender categories, and will demonstrate demographic changes in APSA membership over time.

Also Available:
The APSA Organized Sections Dashboard outlines the demographic breakdown – including membership type, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and primary field of study – of each of APSA’s organized sections.

Lynn Vavreck, Professor of Political ScienceUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Lynn Vavreck is a full professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA and a contributing columnist to The New York Times. She teaches courses on and writes about campaigns, elections, and public opinion. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously worked at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and The White House. She is the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and awards for her work on political advertising.

Teresa M. Bejan, Associate Professor of Political TheoryUniversity of Oxford

Dr. Bejan’s research brings perspectives from early modern English and American political thought to bear on questions in contemporary political theory and practice. She has published peer-reviewed articles in The Journal of Politics, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, History of European Ideas, and the Oxford Review of Education, and in several edited volumes. Her book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard University Press) examines contemporary calls for civility in light of seventeenth-century debates about religious toleration. Many of the pressing questions facing liberal democracies today — such as what the proper scope of religious liberty should be and how to handle partisanship and hate speech — closely recall early modern concerns about the limits of toleration and the dangers posed by sectarianism, evangelical expression, and so-called “persecution of the tongue.” Then as a now, thinkers appealed to civility as a way to reconcile the tension between diversity and disagreement, but determining what civility requires can be complicated. While some restraint on expression is surely necessary to make disagreement tolerable, accusations of “incivility” can easily become pretexts for persecution.

Arthur Lupia, Hal R Varian Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, talks about the development of the Let’s Be Heard Special Issue (September 2015) in PS: Political Science and Politics journal, during the 2015 APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

John Ishiyama, PH.D., Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, shares his conference experiences with us, letting viewers know the highlights and benefits of APSA membership and attending the APSA Annual Meeting! Last year, Ishiyama was recognized during the 2015 Annual Meeting as the winner of APSA’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Ishiyama’s foundational work and leadership within APSA has helped build important infrastructure to promote Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, enhanced research on teaching and learning, and left a strong legacy for future educators. He served as founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Political Science Education from 2004 until 2012, when he assumed the role of lead editor of the American Political Science Review. He was one of the founders and architects of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, an important conference that equips and encourages political science educators around the world. His impressive range of pedagogical articles, papers, and monographs testify to his commitment to elevating teaching in the discipline. His wide range of accomplishments also includes directing undergraduate research programs, securing grants to fund research and mentoring programs, and serving in leadership roles with the APSA Teaching and Learning Committee and Pi Sigma Alpha.